Somewhere Else - The Wound
‘Wound’
Rich Harding
said "One
of the less pleasant euphemisms for the female genitalia, though whether it
is intended here is unclear."
‘Didn't stop it weeping’
‘Weeping’ obviously refers to tears. In English, it is quite normal to refer
to a wound that seeps fluid as ‘weeping’.
‘Tree Fern’
Adapted from Wikipedia’s article: "Tree
Ferns (Cyatheales) are technically a type of fern that grows with a
trunk elevating the leaves above ground level. However, the ferns most
commonly named ‘Tree Ferns’ comprise a group of large ferns belonging to the
families Dicksoniaceae and Cyatheaceae in the order Cyatheales, found
growing in tropical and subtropical areas, including cool to temperate
rainforests in places like Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia.
"Many
tree ferns grow in shaded woodland nooks, though this is not the only place
that ferns can grown."
Their reproduction method is far to complex to
attempt to describe in any detail here, but essentially, adapted from
Wikipedia’s general article on
Ferns, works by
"dropping a
spore which is capable of growing by cell division until it creates a sex
organ with both sperm and eggs. One an egg becomes fertilised, it will
remained attached to the spore and grow to become an adult plant."
'There ain't too much sadder than Clones'
A pun on the notion that clowns are
inherently sad (see the
Fugazi
cover description) .Sylvain
Clauser also noted that the lines
bear a strong resemblance to the chorus from Smokey Robinson's 'Tears of a
Clown', which goes as follows:
Now there's some sad things known to man,
But ain't too much sadder than
The tears of a clown
When there's no one around.
'Now there's some sad... ...the planet Marzipan'
A line in the lyrics, but not audible on
the album! A play on the name of the planet Mars, presumably intended to
imply tragicomedy to the aforementioned man through the use of the word
'marzipan', a confection of ground sugar and almonds, often used to cover
cakes.
As of April 08, we also know Planet
Marzipan to be a song on the forthcoming Happiness is the Road
album.
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